This is what makes the GAME fun -controversy.
I'm not an A8 - so I have no ulterior motives.
Whenever these A8's have a squad night and whenever these guys have decided to take a base - they do just that - with "extreme predjudice".
The guy that got me into this game was an A8 (A8WB) and outside of this game, I knew him for 30 years. Watching him play this game with his squad is what motivated me to give it a go.
When I joined a squad (proudly an Excalibur - VFA 169) and we started to play Late War, rolling bases was no easy feat as I thought because it seemed at that time a8's rolled at will. 6 months ago, it seemed like whenever the A8's got on together and "imposed their will" - it was see ya bye now - Rooks win the map.
Lately - the bish and knits have been rolling maps -but it doesn't frustrate me at all - because what I perceive happened was bish and knits are gang banging against rooks first. There's nothing wrong with that. I respect a lot of guys that play exclusively Bish and Knits and got to know them (as the kill me all the time!).
There are excellent squads: Bish and Knits - no argument. I play exclusively rook myself. My pref. And if I have none of my own squaddies on atm, I'm going to go and find out where the A8s are - because that's where the action is.